Photo by Chikako Harada

Photo by Chikako Harada

 

LAPIN LEUKU / SAMI KNIFE 2009

Hommage to the Sami knife

The initial to the Sami knife project was taken by interior architect Simo Heikkilä, who invited 22 international designers to re-design the traditional everyday object. Lautenbacher´s knife´s handle is in porcelain and reindeer bone.

The new interpretations of knives were exhibited first in year 2009 in SIIDA, The National Museum of the Finnish Sami / Inari Lapland and Finnish Design Forum / Helsinki, before a tour in Europe and Japan.